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Jun 14, 2013

Legislators tend to confuse public
interest with their own interest.Likewise, they tend to confuse national security with their desire to
conceal their own activities from the public.

This appears to be the case with the
information released by whistle blower Edward Snowden.The NSA under government directive have
been secretly monitoring most of the communications in America and many others
across the world.

The statements of John Boehner and
Dianne Feinstein, that Snowden is a traitor, or that the release of this
information is treason are questionable at best.

It is reasonable to argue that in the
interests of preventing terrorist attacks, communications from those likely to
plan or carry out such actions can be monitored. Such people are probably aware or at least suspect that they
may be under survalience and are probably taking countermeasures anyway.Releasing information on survalence of
these groups can endanger the public.

The problem in this case is though,
this is not targeted survalence but a blanket coverage of vast swathes of
domestic and overseas communication using the pretext of terrorism as
cover.This is a gross violation
of the rights of all law abiding citizens whose phone records and internet
commumications are recorded.

Revealing countermeasures taken
against the enemies of the American people is treason, but when the state uses
this as a pretext for wholesale spying on the population at large, not just the
dangerous people, such revelations are whistle blowing.

The Obama Administration is dangerously
inclined to think it rules by divine right, and dangerously contemptuous of
Constitutional limitations to its power, to the point of considering itself
imperial.The idea that such
information gathering would not be misused is negated by the misuse of the
powers of the IRS in the targeting of political opponents.

The only treason Boehner and
Feinstein can argue, is against their belief in the unrestrained rights of big
government.